Cataract Surgical Team
Celebrating 30 Years of God’s Faithfulness
Over 4,000 people from 112 countries and all 50 states converged on Orlando last week to give God the glory for His faithfulness over 30 years of Operation Christmas Child. Everyone praised God for providing more than 200 million shoebox gifts for children in need since 1993 and for the 50 million boys and girls…
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Gardening Brings Abundance, Resilience in Difficult Places
Though it’s the heart of the dry season, Angelina bends to tend to the bountiful beans growing in a flourishing patch of earth. It makes sense that Samaritan’s Purse staffers chose this spot for a training garden, as the nearby stream boasts banks lush with thriving plants. Beyond the river, scrubby acacia trees seem to…
Newsletter March 2026
From Garden to Kingdom
Growing School Gardens in South Sudan
Children living in impoverished villages in South Sudan often struggle to have enough food to eat. While school feeding programs are providing students with a meal during the school day, the meals lack vegetables, meaning micronutrients such as iodine, iron, and vitamin A are absent from a student’s diet. Samaritan’s Purse has stepped in to…
Livelihoods Opening Doors in South Sudan
Nyalong, 35, serves as a leader among mothers in Kangkoi, a village in Mayendit County, South Sudan. For the past year, she has been training many women on matters of health and nutrition. She herself has five children, ages 4 to 16. She’s also helping to guide other families in growing food, strengthening their finances,…
Water for Displaced Families in South Sudan
Nya, 15, had heard stories that she could only think of as old tales, since they came from grandparents and the other wizened folk in their corner of Mayendit, South Sudan, where they used to live. They recounted the flooding that’d happened decades before. But now Nya was living her own flood story, displaced to…











